Cerebral Nocardiosis in a patient with Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinaemia
Tapley, P.; Cranfield, T.G.; Simon, G.K.
Acute Medicine 7(3): 128-130
2008
ISSN/ISBN: 1747-4884 PMID: 21607214 Document Number: 11360
Nocardiosis is caused by nocardia species, a Gram positive aerobic filamentous bacillus. It is ubiquitous in the environment and often presents as pulmonary disease in more than 70% of patients.1 Dissemination of the disease may manifest as brain abscesses, and is reported to account for approximately 2% of all brain abscesses.2,3 We present a case of cerebral nocardiosis in a patient with Waldenstrom's macroglobulinaemia, previously unreported in the literature.
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